Hiang
given name · Latin script
Meaning: alternative form of yang (“a deity, god, or goddess”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hiang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 71Kas เฮียง(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
- USUnited States1 in 748Kas Heang
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hiang itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈980 named เฮียง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เฮียง in TH Thailand, KR South Korea, Heong in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and Hieng in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative form of yang (“a deity, god, or goddess”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hiang counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 71K | #954,625 | เฮียง | 38 |
| US United States | 445as Heang | 1 in 748K | 367 | Hieng | 10 |
| KR South Korea | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | เฮียง | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Heong | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | Heong | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hiang is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, a rank smell as of putrid fish, a _ stench
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, dangerous, a mere chance, to topple over
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, an elder brother, (bau-hiang)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cao Xianb. 541not in their usual nameSui dynasty person CBDB = 94476
- Li Xianb. 653not in their usual nameTang Dynasty crown prince
- Wang Xianb. 1721not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB=65769
- Ho Yinb. 1908PTnot in their usual namePortuguese politician
- Patrick Tse Yinb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor (1936–2026)
- Sun Xianzhongb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese jurist
- Chen Xianb. 1997CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Pang Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 318423
- Zhang Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=35498
- Yao Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 310505
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hiang mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of yang (“a deity, god, or goddess”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hiang a male or female name?
- Hiang is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Hiang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 978 people named เฮียง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hiang most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hiang is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.5 million people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hiang?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Hiang, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hiang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiangThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hiang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.